By Davis Carlton
Doug Wilson recently posted a video on his Blog & Mablog YouTube channel called Epistemological Impudence and The Post-War Consensus. He has a real knack for coming up with titles that just roll off the tongue. The thesis advanced by Wilson is that World War II set the stage for the zeitgeist of relativism. The secular elites adopted relativism because they came to believe that deeply held beliefs and dogmas were the cause of war with all of its accompanying atrocities. The solution was: mix in some relativistic “paint thinner” with our convictions to make sure that the evils that brought about the world wars could be avoided in the future. Wilson recalls a rancorous classroom discussion in the 1970s in which a young woman complained about how the deep seated convictions of Christians made them “just like the Nazis.”